The provision of different rooms or "houses" for
different seasons in the mansions of the rich is known also from
Jer 36:22 which refers to the king's "winter" house
or room, as well as extra-Israelite evidence (see Andersen & Freedman, 411). Possibly
Ahab's palace in Jezreel served a similar function (1 Kgs 21:1).
Whether rooms or whole houses these were clearly a sign of great
wealth, as was the ivory decoration of Ahab's palace in Samaria.

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